70 to 75 Miles Per Hour winds. Reporter hermine intensified in the warm waters of the gulf of mexico thursday. Landfall is expected over night in floridas panhandle. From there, hermine will head up the eastern seaboard. Florida has not had a direct hit from a hurricane in 11 years. Residents along the gulf coast spent the day preparing for the worst. Sandbags, you know. Try to get everything ready, tied down, vehicles out. Reporter the ut outer bands of heavy rains have been pushing on shore since late this morning. By the time its all over, some areas could see almost two feet of rainfall. A state of emergency has been declared for more than 50 counties in florida and schools in more than 20 counties have been closed. Philip byron is using these last few hours of preparation to stack sandbags outside his newly renovated real estate office. Its just mother nature. You take it as it comes and you reporter prepared or not, florida residents are in for a long night. Don champion, clevela
The father of the oldest child. He visited her in the hospital and told me she is fighting for her life tonight, her three children in foster care. Shes a fighter. Thats why shes still alive. Reporter bianca was shot in the back, both legs, and her hand. Police say her boyfriend pulled the trigger, this man, Jamarian Williams. I heard a popping noise. Reporter in front of three children. Benjamin gandy just saw her in the hospital and says he knows she will get through it. But neighbors are still coping with what they saw last night. The blood started from the dining room all the way to the porch. Her three small children calling for help. I was afraid that she was going to pass away and those williams drove away after shooting her, led police own a chase and tried to ditch the gun. But hes behind bars tonight. I dont think he will see daylight theytime soon here in our community. Reporter Jamarian Williams is currently in the Summit County jail. He faces several charges here tonight.
Meteorologist jeff tanchak in the First Alert Weather Center with the latest. Jeff . Jeff okay, guys. It looks like this thing will track to the carolinas into the weekend. 75 mile per hour winds and first hurricane to make landfall in florida in 11 years east of panama city overnight early tomorrow morning, overnight. Cat 1 hurricane and ton of rain in the northern part o concern. Flooding overnight at 2 00 a. M. Making landfall at this time tomorrow tracking across southern georgia into the eastern part of South Carolina by saturday early morning, so that will be tomorrow night wilmington, North Carolina and pick up a little bit of speed. If you have perhaps to go to the carolinas this weekend, i think things will be improving on saturday. All right. Tomorrow it will be pretty crazy, ill teletha. Saturday afternoon it begins to lift back out over the atlantic affecting the east coast here with mainly a lot of surf and perhaps some rain by sunday afternoon. And it will continue to dri
The debate continues to grow. I think it would help them and keep our community and our state safe. I dont see anything wrong with it. It is essential facial recognition software. Reporter a computer to recognize a famous face. The distance between her eyes, her nose, and her mouth. Reporter or lesserknown person like this cleveland kidnapping suspect it could help solve more cases. Cutting that down from several days of research to a few seconds. They could save somebodys life. Reporter a Government Accountability report says the fbi better slowdown. Raising issues with privacy and the accuracy of that technology. It has room for improvement that fire off on somebody else that may be under investigation. Reporter false positives can happy. Rhode island decided not to share is drivers license photos earlier this summer. Police rely on much more than a match. Theres a lot more analysis, a lot more things that have to happen then just facial recognition software. Reporter 16 states have
Packing for the beach, take the first alert forecast app with you getting live temperatures and more on your phone. Lets talk about hermida in south carolina. The Tropical Storm brought scattered reports of flooded roads, trees down and Power Outages and thankfully no major damage. Been there, done that a couple of times. Shouldnt be that bad. Just the wind as long as not a lot of rain denise the storm hit florida with rain tropical strength moving across the southeast. It is bringing heavy rain and strong winds to georgia and carolinas. At least one death has been blamed on the storm. The storm surge is predicted to hit the coast of virginia this weekend. The governor declared a state of emergency. This is sheiban jewelers we have had a smash and grab mark Strongsville Police called to a business on pearl road. A man stole several watches and uhaul van. Officers chased the van into cleveland and crashed at west 141st. Jen picciano explains the mess from the crash and thats whats hurti